The Jets’ best wide receiver, Santonio Holmes, said Wednesday he believes he will play at some point this season, but he isn’t sure if he will make his debut in Sunday’s season opener against Tampa Bay and former Jets star cornerback Darrelle Revis, who the team traded in the offseason.

“Still don’t know,” Holmes said. “Still haven’t gotten any word from the docs yet on whether I should be playing or not.”

Holmes expects a decision won’t be made about his status for the game until Sunday. He is still limited in practice as he recovers from a Lisfranc (mid-foot) fracture to his left foot, an injury he sustained Sept. 30 against San Francisco. It required two surgeries and a deliberate rehabilitation process that still isn’t over.

The Jets could use Holmes as soon as possible, because they are starting a rookie quarterback, Geno Smith, at least for the Tampa Bay game, and perhaps longer. But Holmes did not hesitate when asked if he can run routes yet with his usual skill.

“No,” he said. “Not at all. Not to this point.”

Holmes is on the active roster, so he is eligible to play Sunday in what he said would “be a great matchup” with Revis, who is returning from a torn anterior cruciate knee ligament suffered in Week 2 last year. But Holmes hasn’t yet fully participated in practice. He said he is limited to walk-through work against no contact and no defensive players.

It seems unlikely that Holmes will be at 100 percent by Sunday. Does he have to be at his usual level to play in the opener?

“Like I said before, I have a long career and I don’t want to get out there and do anything to jeopardize that,” he said. “We have 16 games to play this season and hopefully I can play in all 16, but if not, we’ll have to deal with what I can do. … I feel pretty good about the things I have tried to do thus far (in practice).

“With my injury being a Grade 4 (the most serious type of Lisfranc fracture) and having to deal with surgery twice is a little bit different from a lot of guys who have probably had one surgery or many who didn’t even have a surgery. It’s just learning to accept what your body can and cannot do at this point.”

Holmes said he was not a candidate to be placed on the short-term injured reserve list, which would have meant he would’ve been eligible to practice after Week 6 and play after Week 8.

As he prepares to try to return as soon as possible, he said he hadn’t yet talked to the Jets’ medical people about the possibility that they might clear him for Sunday, and leave the decision about if he plays in his hands.

Whenever he returns, he is looking forward to proving wrong those who think the Jets are destined for a horrible season.

“Right now in the power rankings (according to ESPN), we’re ranked 32 in the NFL, and I think we probably couldn’t be more happier than being off the radar of everybody,” he said. “Because we have to focus on the team and not what anybody else thinks this team should be.”